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Pregnant woman injured by ricocheted bullet

Savannah-Chatham police’s Violent Crimes detectives are investigating a shooting that injured a woman outside an East 56th Street home late Nov. 5.

Officers responded to an area on the 1100 block of East 55th Street around 11:20 p.m. and discovered a 19-year-old woman with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. She was transported to a hospital for treatment.

Detectives learned the woman, who is pregnant, had been in a physical altercation with another woman outside a home on the 1100 block of East 56th Street. While they were fighting, a man at the scene pulled out a gun and fired a round into the floor of the porch. The bullet ricocheted, striking her.